Richmond Police Statement On Cantor Office Vandalism

[sabra]

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/richmond-police-statement-on-cantor-office-vandalism.php

Richmond Police Investigate Cantor Building Vandalism

March 25, 2010

The Richmond Police Department is investigating an act of vandalism at the Reagan Building, 25 E. Main St., Richmond, Virginia. A first floor window was struck by a bullet at approximately 1 a.m. on Tuesday, March 23. The building, which has several tenants including an office used by Congressman Eric Cantor, was unoccupied at the time.

A Richmond Police detective was assigned to the case. A preliminary investigation shows that a bullet was fired into the air and struck the window in a downward direction, landing on the floor about a foot from the window. The round struck with enough force to break the windowpane but did not penetrate the window blinds. There was no other damage to the room, which is used occasionally for meetings by the congressman.

The Richmond Police Department is sharing information about the incident with appropriate law enforcement agencies.

At this time there are no suspects.

[grantcart]

1. lol so it was a random bullet shot in the air that happened to fall

near a window in an occupied office.

[WeDidIt]

2. Somebody randomly shot in the air and it hit Cantor's office???

:rofl:

[sabra]

3. hit a meeting room in a building his camp has an office in

[Kadie]

6. I wonder if they were celebrating something Cantor did?

Got all happy, started shooting in the air to celebrate... What goes up must come down!

:rofl:

[Gman2]

8. With luck like that, they should just give up now.

[Schema Thing]

4. They were aiming for god and almost hit Satan!

[Midlodemocrat]

5. Nice work, there, Eric. No guns are EVER fired in that area.

:rofl:

Dumbass.

[blogslut]

7. Leave it to TPM to do some ACTUAL reporting

Thanks for this link.

Note, this is NOT a Cantor government office. This is the office of a company that does direct-mail marketing for numerous repub clients:

http://www.marcusandallen.com/about_us.php
http://www.creativedirect.net/clients.html

[sabra]

10. thanks for the links!

[blogslut]

13. Thank DUer arcadian for finding the place on Google

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=17330876581716889611&q=25+east+main+street+richmond+virginia&hl=en&cd=5&cad=src:pplink&ei=p8CrS4bVG5ewMtzKreQE&sig2=JzIQe9Mx12jBTOD8ZPhuNQ

25 E Main St
Richmond, VA 23219

He found it by using this pic:



Taken from this article:

http://www.nbc12.com/Global/story.asp?S=12201242

[blogslut]

9. kick

For the exposure

[Whisp]

11. Individual (not a Leo)? wtf is that about?

this whole thing is just too wierd.

and this incident is what some asshole on CNN makes it 'both sides'?

jesus

[tanyev]

15. Not a law enforcement officer?

Just guessing.

[Whisp]

16. got to be ;) lol. n/t

[DailyGrind51]

12. It must have been an air rifle, because window glass would not deflect something larger.

[Qutzupalotl]

14. It broke the glass, but the blinds deflected it.

[fryguy]

17. a test for Mythbusters?

to figure out how far away from the building that a bullet would need to fired for it to have enough force to break the window but not penetrate the blinds. my guess is between 1/2 and 3/4 of a mile, depending on caliber. kind of seems that his office wasn't so much the target as the city of richmond was....

[RagAss]

18. Sounds like an act of God to me.

[Bozita]

19. So, the guy's a major player on the Hill and he's attacked/threatened. And NO fed agts are on it?

NO FEDS ARE WORKING THIS?

Maybe I need to go get some of that foil from the kitchen drawer.